Dates For Your Diary

31st January 2020

Year 11 Mock Exams 3rd – 7th February and 17th – 21st February

Year 9 Progress Evening Wednesday 5th February, 4.30pm

February Half-Term Holiday 10th – 14th February

Year 8 Progress Evening Wednesday 26th February, 4.30pm

Stars of the Week In It To Win It

Year 7: Cody Banks, Blake Power, Ryan Lomas

Year 8: Kian Flynn

Year 9: Dylan Coupe, Grace Robinson

Year 10: Brooke Oglesby, Charlotte Williams,

Leon Fitzgerald

Year 11: Chloe Lonsdale, Bradley Williams,

Neeve Zahra

Year 7: Darrell Bennett, Madison Bunseedhun,

Jessika Fray, Leah Heap, Charlie Kershaw

Year 8: Rose Ainsworth, Bradley Dee, Jack

Hefferan, Amarachi Ezekiel, Dillon Molloy

Year 9: Alfie Baldwin, Rubin Delves, Macie

Gorton, Brenton Jackson, Leah McAllister

Barratt

Year 10: Ciaran Blake, Amy Fong, Amy

Jackson, Allyssia McCullagh-Hindle, K-Ci Shaw

Year 11:

Claire Corbett, Ethan Hepplethwaite, Mia Mellor

Gee, Matthew Palmer, Amelia Zaretskaya

I would like to draw your attention to the Urban Rangers and National

Trust page of the newsletter. I would love to see and hear about more of

our pupils taking advantage of this exciting opportunity. It has been great

for me personally to learn more about the activities of our very own Oak

Rangers and to see the actual work that they are doing with our own

grounds and the flowerbed at the front of school. This goes alongside the

work of the PCSO team in Year 8 and the recent meeting of the Eco

Club. It is fantastic to see young people caring and taking an active

stance engaging with our environment.

Finally, I was so proud to meet Ryan this week and hear all about his

successful Taekwondo tournament in Italy over last weekend. Well done

Ryan!

Date Time Subject Location

Friday 31st January 9am Y11 English Language (mock) Main Hall/D3

Monday 3rd February 9am

1.30pm

Y10 Business (external exam)

Y11 Biology (mock)

Main Hall/D3

Main Hall/D3

Tuesday 4th February 9am

1.30pm

Y11 Maths (mock) except DIT pupils P1&2 Y11 DIT

Y10/11 DIT (external exam)

Main Hall/D3

Main Hall/D3

Wednesday 5th February 9am

1.30pm

Y11 English Language (mock)

Y11 Maths (mock)

Main Hall/D3

Main Hall/D3

Thursday 6th February 9am

1.30pm

Y11 Maths (mock)

Y11 Chemistry (mock)

Main Hall/D3

Main Hall/D3

Friday 7th February 9am

1.30pm

Y11 Health & Social Care

(external exam)

Y11 DIT pupils’ Maths mock 1 (rescheduled ST P12)

Y11 Physics (mock)

Main Hall/D3

Main Hall/D3

Tuesday 18th February 1.30pm Y11 Spanish Writing (mock) Main Hall/D3

Wednesday 19th February 9am Y11 History & Geography (mock) Main Hall/D3

Thursday 20th February

Revert to usual English revision***

1.30pm Y11 PE (mock) Main Hall/D3

Year 10/11 Mock and External Exams - February 2020

** except DIT pupils who will go to DIT revision at 3pm

*** Y11 DIT pupils’ revision P1 & 2, Y10 DIT pupils’ revision P3 & 4 (Y11 DIT pupils

usual lessons P3 & 4)

Date Time Subject Staff

Thursday 30th January P5 & P6 Y10 Business Mrs Peet

Thursday 30th January 3pm Y11 English Language English Department

Friday 31st January 7am Y11 English Language English Department

Monday 3rd February 7.30am Y10 Business Mrs Peet

Monday 3rd February 7.30am Y11 Science (Biology) Science Department

Monday 3rd February 3pm Y10/11 Digital IT Miss Fox

Tuesday 4th February 7am Y11 Maths Maths Department

Tuesday 4th February P1&2 Y11 Digital IT Miss Fox

Tuesday 4th February P3 & 4 Y10 Digital IT Miss Fox

Tuesday 4th February 3pm Y11 English Language English Department

Wednesday 5th February 3pm Y11 Science (Chemistry) Science Department

Thursday 6th February 3pm Y11 Health & Social Care Mr Hunt

Thursday 6th February 3pm Y11 Science (Physics) Science Department

Friday 7th February 7am Y11 Health & Social Care Mr Hunt

Monday 17th February 3pm Spanish Mr Pratt/Mrs Esgaio-Barros

Tuesday 18th February 3pm Y11 History & Geography Mr Stott/Mrs Ganderton

Wednesday 19th February 3pm Y11 PE Mr Walls

Thursday 20th February 3pm Back to English revision as

usual

English Department

Year 10/11 Mock and External Exams - February 2020

REVISION TIMETABLE

Year 11 Progress Evening

Thank you for your continued support for the school.

Last week’s Progress Evening was the best attended in the past three years with 76% of parents or carers able to attend.

The feedback from the evening was overwhelmingly positive. For example; 92% of

respondents felt that teaching at the school was high quality and 95% believed that the school was continually improving.

The school values feedback received on these evenings as it allows us to further improve the standard of education at the school.

Hair & Beauty at Broadoak School

The Year 10 and 11 pupils who study Hair and Beauty attended a professional workshop this week. The workshop was given by Evka Allen, a make-up artist and

hair stylist. Evka demonstrated various techniques, offered careers advice and

took a question and answer session.

Well done to the following pupils, you have spent the most time on Bedrock out of the

entire school this week.

You can access your English homework by going to app.bedrocklearning.org

Now compatible with tablets, Xbox and PlayStation

Top 5 time spent

Megan Maas 4 hours

Charly Dunn 2 hours 43 minutes

Ben Woolstencroft 2 hours 20 minutes

Jessica Mottershead 2 hours 18 minutes

Leyla Lucketti 2 hours 17 minutes

URBAN RANGERS AND THE NATIONAL TRUST

The Urban Rangers scheme in Partington runs on the 1st Saturday of every month

and is free.

On Saturday 1st February the Learning Team at Dunham have decided for the Urban

Rangers, which is open to all pupils of any age, to be picked up by mini bus and

taken to Dunham Massey at 11am from the Oak Road shops in Partington. They will

work on different jobs, including pond dipping and water quality testing and also use

the sandbox. You will need to bring the completed application form signed with

parental consent to go along on the day.

Please bring snacks, drinks and refreshments on the day.

Sporting Achievement

Recently, one of our Year 7 pupils, Ryan, travelled to Italy to compete in a

Taekwondo competition representing his country. Ryan competed in Weight and Belt

and in a higher age category which meant his opponents were bigger and technically

more advanced than him. Ryan’s first opponent was disqualified for breaking the

rules and he was losing 2-6 to his second opponent at the break. Ryan brilliantly

then went on to beat his second opponent 24-10 meaning he had won the gold

medal! This is a fantastic achievement for Ryan and the PE department are so

thrilled for him. Congratulations Ryan.

Seneca learning is a new online tool being used by Science for Year 9-11. Seneca

has a proven track record of increasing pupils’ grades at GCSE and all the Science

teachers would strongly recommend the pupils use it for their revision. For

homework Year 9-11 will all be asked to join a Seneca classroom. Their class

teacher will then set homework in this classroom for them to complete. Each week

there are top 3 Seneca learners and they will all be entered into a prize draw at half

term!

You don’t have to wait for homework to be set to get on Seneca, pupils can compete

activities at any time. Let’s get learning!

This weeks three top Seneca Learners who will enter a prize draw at the end of the

half term are:

- Elisha Goma Moukala

- Zoe Davies

- Daniel Forsdike

These pupils spent more time on Seneca this week than any other pupils. Well done!

IMPORTANT PARENT INFORMATION

We have been contacted by Your Housing about anti-social behaviour in the flats on

Westmorland Road. It has been reported that some children have been getting into

the flats without permission and causing issues. This is causing distress and upset to

local residents. If any members of school are seen in these flats without permission

the school will take internal action and will also report the children to the police.

We have also been made aware of an Instagram account that has approached some

of our pupils. Where the pupil has engaged in ‘chat’ with this account, the

conversation has become inappropriate, with offers of some indecent images. We

have reported the account to both Instagram and the police and we have been in

contact with parents whose children have been following this account, where we can

identify pupils from their Instagram names. Please speak to them about using social

media safely and ensuring they are not in touch with anyone that they do not know

personally.

Careers

MON 3RD FEBRUARY TRAFFORD COLLEGE

MON 17TH FEBRUARY TRAFFORD COLLEGE

MON 24TH FEBRUARY SHANNY KHAN

R-COM CONSULTING

MON 2ND MARCH ASH NELSON

ABUKA

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

MON 9TH MARCH ACCESS CREATIVE COLLEGE

MON 16TH MARCH TRAFFORD COLLEGE

MON 23RD MARCH TBC

CAREERS LUNCHTIME DROP-IN SCHEDULE

2019-2020 - SPRING TERM

ALL PUPILS ARE WELCOME TO POP IN FOR AN INFORMAL CHATAND TO FIND OUT WHAT EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES LIE AHEAD